I'm glad to hear this, but it's also a pretty low bar to pass. It had not occurred to me to even ask if would be opt-in, I assumed by default of course OpenAI

I'm glad to hear this, but it's also a pretty low bar to pass. It had not occurred to me to even ask if would be opt-in, I assumed by default of course OpenAI wouldn't let GPT just arbitrarily decide to web searches without the user explicitly clicking some kind of button to do the search. To be fair, given OpenAI's track record on security that may not have been a safe assumption for me to have.